[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 241 (Friday, December 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 65566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31627]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-126-000]
Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application
December 9, 1996.
Take notice that on November 26, 1996, Southern Natural Gas Company
(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed an
application with the Commission in Docket No. CP97-126-000 pursuant to
Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for permission and approval
to abandon its undivided interest in certain compression and
dehydration facilities located on leased space on a production platform
owned by Shell Offshore Inc. (SOI) in the Mississippi Canyon Block 311
field (MC Block 311), offshore Louisiana, all as more fully set forth
in the application which is open to the public for inspection.
Southern proposes to abandon its 44 percent undivided interest in a
4,000 horsepower compressor and appurtenant dehydration facilities
located immediately upstream of the inlet flange of its receiving
station facilities on the SOI Mississippi Canyon 311 platform. Southern
and Florida Gas Transmission Company (FGT) received authorization to
construct and operate the facilities in Docket No. CP80-257-000.\1\
Southern states that SOI would acquire its interest in the MC Block 311
compression and dehydration facilities by relieving Southern of its
lease payment obligations under the platform space leases and by
assuming responsibility, until decommissioning, for operation,
maintenance, and repair expenses associated with the continued use of
the said MC Block 311 facilities.
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\1\ 11 FERC para. 61,346 (1980).
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Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before December 30, 1996,
filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the
requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18
CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the NGA (18 CFR
157.10). All protests filed with the Commission will be considered by
it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but will not serve
to make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing
to become a party to a proceeding or to participate as a party in any
hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the
Commission's Rules.
Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in
and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA and the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held
without further notice before the Commission or its designee on this
application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required
herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that
permission and approval for the proposed abandonment are required by
the public convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to
intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its own motion
believes that a formal hearing is required, further notice of such
hearing will be duly given.
Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised,
it will be unnecessary for Southern to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-31627 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am]
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